Pictures

 

This is the house Shaikh al-Albaani, رحمه الله, grew up in …

Another picture of the same house …

And one more …

Pictures of the area he lived in …

… another …

A picture of the shop where the Shaikh first started working as a watch repairer alongside his father before he opened up his own shop and which he mentioned on one of his cassettes …

The same shop, the man in the picture is his youngest brother …

… another …

The street on which the Shaikh’s shop was …

This is a picture of the first school Shaikh Al-Albaani studied in but his father pulled him out of it to teach him at home himself, and the first thing his father started with was memorisation of the Quraan …

… another picture of the school …

… one more …

Now we come to pictures of that famous library, Al-Maktabah adh-Dhaahiriyyah in Damascus, which the Shaikh loved so much and where he spent so much of his life, never departing from it … at times sitting and studying on the floor, at times in the special room which was allocated specifically for his personal use, and at other times standing and reading on the ladders in the library … and as his son Abdul-Lateef mentioned many times the Shaikh would forget to eat his food that day …

… the entrance …

… inside the library …

… may Allaah have mercy upon him …

… the courtyard of the library …

This is a picture of the book Ath-Thamarul-Mustataab fee fiqhis-Sunnah wal-Kitaab, the first book whose hadiths the Shaikh started to check and verify …

… a manuscript of As-Silsilah ad-Da’eefah

… one of his printed religious verdicts …

… cover of the draft of his book, Saheeh Seerah an-Nabawiyyah…

… a page from it …

… cover of the draft of Saheeh Abu Dawud

.. a page from it …

… and the first magazine the Shaikh wrote in …

May Allaah have mercy upon him.

Pictures originally posted on Sahab.net

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